**Aria**
Watching Luca leave was much harder than I thought it would be. It felt like the moment the jeep started to pull away, that my heart was slowly being ripped out of my chest. Even though I had only known him for about a week and a half, I never imagined that this mating bond would have such an effect on me. Aurora was not in much better shape than I was. We consoled each other for over an hour. We were both very emotional, so we thought it best that we were not in a confined space (giving Aurora’s leaky emotion problem).
We found ourselves in our coven circle. This was just as good of a place to be as it was also a bad place to be for this. It was good because we were away from any buildings or structures that could burn down with a spare or small flame. It was a bad plac
